DevTV

  • Wayne Brill, a member of the DevTech Americas team, has been beavering away on a new set of training material for AutoCAD .NET. This material is now live on the AutoCAD Developer Center (the image on the right should help you locate the link). This new material contains information on the following topics: Overview of .NET Plugin Basics User Interaction Database fundamentals Dictionaries User Interface Events InputPoint Monitor Jigs To accompany this material, Wayne has also recorded a set of DevTV sessions, which I'll be serialising over the coming weeks. Here are links to the introduction and the first, getting…

  • As you may have seen – including over at Shaan's blog – the 2012 family of our products has now been announced. Stephen Preston, our DevTech Americas Manager, has recorded a DevTV session on the new APIs in AutoCAD 2012. This material was presented during our recent Developer Days tour, attended by ADN members around the world. AutoCAD 2012 – New APIs View Download (17.2MB) Samples (133KB) Highlights & topics covered: Migration steps New APIs Associative Array API Multi-mode Grip API ResetTimes VisibilityOverrule BlockTableRecord.SetIsFromOverlayReference acdbConvertAcDbCurveToGelibCurve acdbConvertGelibCurveToAcDbCurve acdbAssignGelibCurveToAcDbCurve Autoloader Simplified plugin deployment AutoCAD for Mac I'll definitely be following up with…

  • As many of you may now be aware, much of the content recorded at this year's Autodesk University is now available on the AU website. You'll find the recording of my AU Virtual session, "Getting to Know the AutoCAD® Plug-ins of the Month", as well as material from the two physical sessions I presented, "Point Clouds on a Shoestring" and "Integrate F# into Your C# or VB.NET Application for an 8x Performance Boost". In fact, much to my surprise, the "Point Clouds on a Shoestring" session (which turned out to be my highest-rated session) ended up being recorded, and can…

  • In preparation for his upcoming AUv session, Philippe Leefsma – from our DevTech team in Europe – has recorded a DevTV all about the Associative Surfaces API introduced in AutoCAD 2011. Philippe covers three main topics in this interesting session: The Associative Framework Associative Surfaces Nurbs Surfaces DevTV: AutoCAD 2011 Surfaces API view download (82.3MB) Enjoy! 🙂

  • In this previous post I mentioned a couple of additional translations of the VBA migration DevTV that were in progress. Here is an updated list of the various ones we now have available, including links to German, Spanish and Japanese versions: English view download (44.7 MB) Chinese view download (88.9 MB) French view download (39 MB) Portuguese view download (80.3 MB) Russian view download (39.3 MB) German view download (42.4 MB) Spanish view download (52.9 MB) Japanese   MP4 download (66.9 MB) WMV download (78.5 MB) A big thanks to Augusto Gonçalves, Jeremy Tammik, Shigekazu Saito and Katsuaki Takamizawa for…

  • To help people who don't master English with their efforts to migrate their code from VBA to VB.NET, my team has been busy translating our existing AutoCAD VBA to VB.NET Migration Basics DevTV session into other languages. Here are the languages we have, so far (including an updated English version): English view download (44.7 MB) Chinese view download (88.9 MB) French view download (39 MB) Portuguese view download (80.3 MB) Russian view download (39.3 MB) A big thanks to Augusto Gonçalves, Xiaodong Liang, Philippe Leefsma and Marat Mirgaleev for their hard work on these sessions. German and Spanish versions should…

  • After one update to the content he originally posted, Stephen Preston has handed the reigns for this DevTV across to Augusto Gonçalves, a São Paulo-based member of our DevTech Americas team. Augusto presented his work to rave reviews at AU 2009, and has now updated the online DevTV content. I've gone ahead and updated the original post to point to this new content, but here are the links, for your convenience: AutoCAD VBA to VB.NET Migration Basics view download (44.7 Mb) Aside from upgrading the presenter (sorry, Stephen – I couldn't resist 😉 we've made some additional enhancements in this…

  • We've been working on translating several of our DevTV sessions, and our first Portuguese DevTV is now ready for consumption. 🙂 A member of our DevTech Americas team based in São Paulo, Augusto Gonçalves, created this session based on Fenton Webb's original  (which you can get to from this previous post). Augusto translated the slides into Brazilian Portuguese, and provided his own voice-over for these and for Fenton's demonstrations. Augusto tells me that the content should also be understandable for Portuguese speakers from elsewhere (Portugal, for instance :-). DevTV: Introdução à Programação AutoCAD.NET    view   download (172 Mb) A big thank…

  • Stephen Preston has updated his "AutoCAD VBA to .NET Migration Basics" DevTV session. I've updated the links in this previous post to point to the updated DevTV, as the original recording is likely to disappear during the coming days. Here's an update from Stephen on what's new in this version: New features of the migration tool: Automatically adds 'ObjectDBX' Type Library to created VB6 project file to ensure Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Common classes are correctly identified (previously these came in as Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop) Extra functionality to post-process your VB Express project for you: - Adds F5 startup application - Adds references to acmgd and…

  • As mentioned in a comment on a recent post, Stephen Preston, our DevTech Americas Manager, has put together a useful tool and accompanying DevTV session to help people migrate their VBA code to VB.NET. The resultant code uses COM Interop to call into AutoCAD. AutoCAD VBA to .NET Migration Basics view download (44.3 Mb) Stephen considers this presentation, and the migration tool itself, to be in draft form. If you have feedback, please do send Stephen an email.